Yardley News

Shares of metals producers rose Monday amid reports of stronger manufacturing activity while the commodities sector saw gains on raw materials' price increases.

December 22, 2009 -- The winter storm dealt store owners a major loss this past weekend.

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission is moving ahead with construction of a new Scudder Falls Bridge -- and with plans to impose tolls on that bridge for the first time.

All five men in one Yardley family are Eagle Scouts, including identical triplets who recently achieved the Boy Scouts' highest rank.

The 1,000-gallon oil tank was empty and soil samples showed no leakage, officials said.

A shelter was not ready to accept homeless people Wednesday night, forcing Bucks County officials to recall their Code Blue notice Wednesday afternoon.

Nine Bucks County library advocates told Democratic Commissioner Diane Marseglia their branches have suffered after state funding cuts forced layoffs and reduced hours.

Early warning gauges and lowering reservoir levels are among suggestions made in a major study outlined by the Delaware River Basin Commission.

People interested in Lower Makefield history can wade through 20 pounds of it at the township building, 1100 Edgewood Road.The township historical commission, with help from the private Lower Makefield Historical Society and other groups, has put together Chapter 1 of Lower Makefield history.

Christmas shopping on a Main Street means a merchant wishing you "Merry Christmas!" like she really means it.

With her children grown and gone, but not yet having little ones of their own, Barbara "B.J." Rieck found herself with no one to make quilts for.

If you were driving along Makefield Road and saw $500,000-plus houses surrounding a cardboard box city Friday night and early Saturday, it was not a mirage.

Roman Fitzmartin, 36, of Doylestown Township, is accused of defrauding investors by falsely promising them equity interest in real estate projects and then keeping the proceeds.

A former Bucks County deputy sheriff who resigned last year after admitting he stole $240 from his employer was placed in a probationary program for first-time offenders Tuesday.

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About 20 volunteers planted 15 trees in two of Lower Bucks County's waterfront boroughs earlier this month.

Mary Jane McCarty has seen her designs in print, but never on the big screen. So, when she was tipped off that they might be glimpsed in the recent documentary The September Issue, she had to see for herself.

Lower Makefield supervisors plan to leave the leaves to someone else and turn their attention to long-delayed plans for more township recreational facilities.A preliminary 2010 township budget recently adopted by the board includes dropping the township leaf collection program and its corresponding $40 per-household fee.

James Biear stole from newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer's grandson Kenward Elmslie, the police say.

Police have charged a Yardley, Pa., motorcyclist who was injured in an accident Sunday afternoon with driving under the influence.